Plastic waste in the world's oceans is affecting marine (海洋的) life in new and unusual ways. A group of US and Canadian scientists found some species are living on a huge are a of plastic garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean.Linsey Haram of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center ...
Sampling was conducted at 31 sites in the western Pacific Ocean from 2000 to 2001 with the aim of collecting plastic fragments with a neuston net (mesh size 1.00 mm × 1.64 mm). Small plastic fragments including microplastics (small fragments in the size range of 1.1–41.8 mm) were ...
Engineers have pulled a huge garbage collec-tor to gather plastic material floating in the Pacif-ic Ocean between California and Hawaii, theworlfd's largest spread of garbage, twice the sizeof the state of Texas.The Ocean Cleanup organization created thecollector The group's founder, Boyan Slat...
Plastic pollution permeates every inch of the ocean – from microplastics in the food chain to plastic water bottles floating on the surface. One of the most famous examples, however, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This monolith of ocean pollution is made up of all kinds of marine debri...
The journey of floating ocean plastic from rivers to garbage patches TRAPPED IN THE GYRES It can take years for a plastic piece to break free from these coastal waters and be carried out to the open ocean – but once it’s out there, it can stay there for a long time. ...
It uses funnels to control the floating plastic.3. What can we learn from the text?A. Slat tested the device in the Korea Strait.B. Slat's device works well in the Pacific Ocean.C. Ocean Cleanup built a 62-mile-long floating structure.D. Ocean Cleanup needs to prove the value of ...
Plastic pollution in the ocean creates new habitat 塑料垃圾成为海洋生物的新栖息地 Play audio file 在被称为 “太平洋垃圾带” 的开阔海洋地区,科学家发现了生活在塑料残渣上的海洋生物。 There are at least fivehotspotsof floating plastic in the global ocean. ...
A young Dutch inventor is widening his effort to clean up floating(浮动的) plastic from the Pacific Ocean. He has developed a floating device(设备) to trap plastic waste moving into rivers before it reaches the oceans.Boyan Slat was just 18 years old when he invented a system for catching...
The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic objects ...
the oil that floats a the oil that floats a long the top. long the top. Litter! Litter! Litter is a big problem, Litter is a big problem, the rubbish that the rubbish that you through away you through away ends up in the ends up in the Pacific Ocean. Pacific Ocean. ...